I've heard that if I have a soundbox, I can run just the one color monitor on my cube (even the marketing literature says that ... )

I have a known good soundbox and periphreals, and when I trigger the cubes to boot by touching a resistor to pin 6 and GND on the DB-19 on the motherboard, it powers up, shows firmware / boot type output on the monitor (I don't have mono cables yet to hook a B&W monitor up so i'm stuck trying this, heh!) ... so it would appear the cube's motherboard itself and the ND card are both working...

so why won't it take keyboard input from the ND card or power up with the keypress?!?

The cubes are stock 040's and even swapping for another mobo does not help....

Ah! So I have to hook the soundbox into the cube's motherboard, and the monitor just straight through, as normal. Okay, I never thought of that! Well, then, i'm back to waiting on cables then, thanks a lot for the info!